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allegorical oracle

(5,443 posts)
Thu Jul 17, 2025, 01:08 PM Jul 17

DJT's pettiness bans James Clapper's dog from her service dog graduation

Earlier this year, an adorable yellow Lab named Susan completed a CIA training program for “detection K9s.” She was a natural at sniffing out concealed explosives—think car bombs and suicide vests—and the agency was eager to put her to work protecting its personnel.

James Clapper, who had sponsored Susan through a nonprofit organization that helps place service dogs, was delighted. Clapper, 84, was one of the longest-serving and most experienced intelligence officers in U.S. history, and was the Director of National Intelligence in the Obama administration. There was a certain professional symmetry in his pup ending up at the CIA, a place he both knew intimately and deeply admired. It was also bittersweet: Clapper named Susan after his late wife, a former National Security Agency employee who had been at his side during his five-decade career.

Clapper was looking forward to attending the dog’s graduation ceremony at a CIA training facility in Herndon, Virginia. But the day before the event, in late May, he received an email from the nonprofit dog-training group: Clapper’s name had been scratched from the guest list, per an executive order from the president of the United States.

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CIA officials interpreted Trump’s order to mean that Clapper should be barred from even setting foot on agency property. The agency conveyed that message to the nonprofit, which had invited Clapper to attend the ceremony, a representative with the organization told me. (The CIA itself declined to comment on the Clapper snub.)

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-s-war-on-the-deep-state-comes-for-the-dogs/ar-AA1IMXjO

https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/archive/2025/07/james-clapper-cia-dog-trump/683575/

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DJT's pettiness bans James Clapper's dog from her service dog graduation (Original Post) allegorical oracle Jul 17 OP
Just one more day in the Disaffected Jul 17 #1
Small, petty and mean. In other words same ole same ole. efhmc Jul 17 #2
aka a nasty little shit Botany Jul 17 #10
Yes, I mean, what a waste of time. ananda Jul 17 #11
But he always has time to be cruel. The man is truly sick. Botany Jul 17 #17
Keep seeing those sickening stories. Doesn't Mike Johnson ever ask what Jesus allegorical oracle Jul 17 #20
Psychopath. chowder66 Jul 17 #3
Trump once hired a pet rock but fired it when it beat him at solitaire. Ping Tung Jul 17 #4
What I don't get: One would think a POTUS has really busy days, full of important items allegorical oracle Jul 17 #5
Yes the staff already admitted that they have many EOs ready to go newdeal2 Jul 17 #8
EOs seem to be all he does when he's not golfing. Maybe his swollen legs will allegorical oracle Jul 17 #18
There is no bottom... Fil1957 Jul 17 #6
God, the shitty nation in which I live. (nt) Paladin Jul 17 #7
Who let djt know about the guest list? It's not as if Ilsa Jul 17 #9
Who let djt know about the guest list? Botany Jul 17 #12
Small correction... GiqueCee Jul 17 #14
Sick narcissistic POS orangecrush Jul 17 #13
OMG - this is so fuggin mean, petty and republicon BoRaGard Jul 17 #15
Red-hatted POS democrank Jul 17 #16
The dog gets to attend. Clapper does not. n/t Ms. Toad Jul 17 #19
This message was self-deleted by its author LudwigPastorius Jul 17 #21

Botany

(74,875 posts)
10. aka a nasty little shit
Thu Jul 17, 2025, 03:23 PM
Jul 17

As President of the United States he has time to look @ the where, when, and who of
is attending a service dog graduation ceremony?

Putin is getting his money’s worth out of installing Trump in order to hurt America and
cause social divisions.

ananda

(32,662 posts)
11. Yes, I mean, what a waste of time.
Thu Jul 17, 2025, 03:25 PM
Jul 17

This president's priorities are nothing but mean and petty.

Botany

(74,875 posts)
17. But he always has time to be cruel. The man is truly sick.
Thu Jul 17, 2025, 03:32 PM
Jul 17

They (Trump, Musk, and the Doge boys) have already killed 300,000 Africans with their cuts to USAID.
The mathematician and professor of infectious diseases at Boston University had created a model to predict the human cost of the Department of Government Efficiency’s (Doge) USAid funding cuts.

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What Nichols had not appreciated was what was killing people, and just how quickly it appeared to be killing them. A death was estimated to be happening somewhere in the world every three minutes. “It was just shocking,” she said.

As Elon Musk, the head of Doge, arrived at the White House on Friday afternoon to be congratulated by President Trump for his work slashing the federal budget, the number of deaths on Nichols’s tracker hit 300,000, more than 200,000 of them children.

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Their racism is on full on display.

“They” would rather let the food rot or burn it than give it to black people in Africa. This is not only
Trump’s racism but also Elon Musk’s South Afrikaner beliefs too. They also let tens of thousands of
of kits that keep starving people from dying from diarrhea go to waste too. Hell, they are just n*****s.
I wonder if Trump’s Christian supporters understand that their Jesus was black.

These are Pol Pot, Hitler, and Stalin type of #s.

https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/usaid-doge-deaths-children-cuts-7nb83dfkp

allegorical oracle

(5,443 posts)
20. Keep seeing those sickening stories. Doesn't Mike Johnson ever ask what Jesus
Thu Jul 17, 2025, 03:55 PM
Jul 17

would think of that hideous waste?

allegorical oracle

(5,443 posts)
5. What I don't get: One would think a POTUS has really busy days, full of important items
Thu Jul 17, 2025, 02:57 PM
Jul 17

that need attention. Life's hard enough... but this horrible excuse for a human finds so many teensy, creepy little things to do to hurt other people.

Does he have someone on his staff who does nothing but search for nice, joyful things that djt can go out of his way to ruin?

newdeal2

(3,467 posts)
8. Yes the staff already admitted that they have many EOs ready to go
Thu Jul 17, 2025, 03:08 PM
Jul 17

For days when he is feeling sad or needs something to do.

allegorical oracle

(5,443 posts)
18. EOs seem to be all he does when he's not golfing. Maybe his swollen legs will
Thu Jul 17, 2025, 03:51 PM
Jul 17

painfully interrupt his play days.

Ilsa

(63,064 posts)
9. Who let djt know about the guest list? It's not as if
Thu Jul 17, 2025, 03:18 PM
Jul 17

djt would read such a detailed memo and list. Someone pointed out Clapper's name. That person is also due some negative publicity and targeting as a petty, vindictive ass.

GiqueCee

(2,608 posts)
14. Small correction...
Thu Jul 17, 2025, 03:30 PM
Jul 17

"... petty, vindictive ass-kisser." Ya gotta bet they were lookin' to score some major, literal brownie points!

BoRaGard

(6,587 posts)
15. OMG - this is so fuggin mean, petty and republicon
Thu Jul 17, 2025, 03:30 PM
Jul 17

WWJD?

He'd grab a switch and drive the republicons from the White house and Washington....

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